Musings

A place where my ego bursts forth through my writings.

[markrosewater]

"No. My best guess is letting stores have more choice of what format to run is the biggest culprit." Mark this is a horrible take, blaming the LGS for WotC's incompetence is disrespectful to the stores that keep wotc alive

I'm not at all blaming stores. We gave them more latitude to run events that their players were asking for and the players said they wanted Commander over Standard. The stores were merely following the demands of their players. That's what stores should do. They did absolutely nothing wrong. Less people are playing Standard because less people wanted to play Standard.

[casuallyaperson]

Standard is unpopular, got it.

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

“oh we don’t wanna consume problematic media–” i unironically think everyone should consume problematic media at some point in their life. obviously not to say that people should monetarily support hp or aot or that, but i think it teaches you critical thinking skills when you say “yeah, objectively kingdom hearts has a lot of issues with the writing of their female characters” instead of “if you play kingdom hearts you’re a sexist”, you know?

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

if the only thing you consume is cookie-cutter “good“ than how are you going to act when something bad happens irl? when you do something bad irl? what do you do when your favorite Pure media suddenly a Not Good??? cause that’s the thing, NOTHING is perfect. NOTHING and NO ONE. we’re all flawed people and the stuff we create is going to be flawed and that’s what makes us human. stop trying to be perfect, it’s literally impossible, and learn how to say “this thing has problems and i’m willing to look at and discuss them, but it’s also something i enjoy and i am going to also celebrate the good”

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

i just. when i was a kid i was That™ warriors kid on the playground. running around on all fours hissing and doing clan meetings with my friend group on the slide. i read every fucking warriors book that existed, which is not an easy feat

looking at it now, i can tell you the treasure trove of Problematic Content™ it has. the rampant sexism (despite all the authors being women??), lack of care for continuity or exploring the world outside of our protags, one-dimensional villains, indigenous stereotyping/appropriation, even more sexism, the age gaps and incest-y relationships that the authors either don’t notice, refuse to acknowledge, or defend for some fucking reason, the INSANE ableism and heteronormativity… it’s a MESS.

i’m still glad i read it. i still reblog fanart of hollyleaf and leafpool, still point at cats and give them warrior names, i still think fondly of the island in the lake behind my friend’s house that looked exactly like the meeting spot in the books, still joke with friends about which clan we’d be in or our favorite characters would be in

as a kid, i didn’t notice all the issues, but there were others i could spot. i could spot the accidental incest and say “that’s weird, i don’t like that.” i didn’t notice the sexism in the way the female characters were always shoved aside and ended up becoming Doting Mothers™, but i did notice the ableism of assuming cinderpelt and jayfeather couldn’t be warriors despite their disabilities not being something that would stop an irl cat from finding a way to hunt or fight. and i was able to say “i don’t like these parts, and there would be a way to do them better.”

contrast to when i was in… fourth grade? third? i remember i was in public school, and i borrowed a book from the library that offhandedly mentioned a ouija board. i asked my mom how to pronounce this strange new word and she immediately took the book from me until it was time to return it. this didn’t teach me what my mom wanted me to learn, which was “we don’t fuck with demons in this house,” it just taught me that i couldn’t go to my mom with questions about books i was reading because she would take them away.

it was way better for my young, learning mind to say “what is wrong with this, why does it feel wrong, and what could they have done better” than to just take the Problems™ away

and obviously i dont think people should actively seek out shit media, but like. reading or watching something with Problems™ isn’t the end of the fucking world

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

SO funny how people in the notes are like “but what about media that’s actively harmful like hp or aot???” as if i didnt mention them explicitly in the first post lol

tell me u cant read without telling me u cant read

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

also for everyone saying “consume media not made for children”: fun fact my original draft of this post was talking about shit like 1984 and Lolita but long story short 90% of the internet hasn’t read past a 4th grade level so i figured warrior cats would make my point better lol

[casuallyaperson]

Sometimes,

My ideas walk the fine line of stupid and useful.

[she-ramen]

the she-ra reboot makes this video relevant again which means we are in the best timeline

[sodomymcscurvylegs]

This is literally the best video the internet has ever produced.

[spongebob-closeups]

[ninjagofan26]

YOU CAN ONLY REBLOG THIS ONCE A YEAR

[thejakelikesonions]

Would you?

[brewerssupplies]

Start a business selling faulty rpg items. Such as brass knuckles that do 1d6 lightning damage but due to conduction you also take damage.

[one-true-houselight]

A flail made from aloe leaves so it healed as it dealt damage.

[brewerssupplies]

A ring of frostbite. Over time your hand slowly gets more and more frostbitten.

[highlyquestionablerpgideas]

An enchanted scythe. Once in battle, it becomes painfully obvious the “enchantment” was Minor Illusion. It’s actually made of cardboard.

[brewerssupplies]

An axe that doesn’t do damage but makes enemies smell nice.

[probablybarpgideas-blog]

A bow that only shoots where you’re aiming if you’re blackout drunk.

[mooretimetoplay]

A sword that does untyped area of effect damage. With d12s. Many of them.

[brewerssupplies]

A sword that is actually just a really big butter knife.

[mooretimetoplay]

A crossbow that when not in use becomes a large raven to fly around on its own. It has its own, very specific ideas as to when and where it is in use.

[brewerssupplies]

A Staff of Goodwill that rather than making peace with others just gives you bargain bin items.

[numeneragoth]

a shuriken that is actually a fidget spinner

[probablyhumanrpgideas]

A human made sword that is just a small sharp person

[probablydoppelgangerrpgideas]

A weapon that is actually secretly a doppelganger

[probablywriterrpgideas]

A tome you can only read if you drop ink in your eyes

[probablymetarpgideas]

A magic scabbard with a sword, when the sword is drawn, another scabbard is underneath

[probablyquestionablerpgideas]

A potion of Heeling. It only repairs damage done to your heels.

[probablydidrpgideas]

An item that boasts giving you the strength of 10 men, but instead just gives you DID so you have 9 people in your head alongside you. They never stop talking.

[brewerssupplies]

An item sold as speaker but is actually a box that screams for no apparent reason.

[thefiremind]

Vanishing spell ink, you write your spells down and they vanish permanently an hour later

[brewerssupplies]

A quill that behaves as if it were the animal it came from.

[thefiremind]

+1 weapon, it’s a bogo whatever weapon you buy so that if your players buy a +1 rapier in character then they get 2 rapiers for the price of one

[brewerssupplies]

A sword that’s half off. You only get the blade.

[yuureis-truly-deactivated202110]

A potion of darkvision that make everything look dark

[brewerssupplies]

A mask of many faces but only lets you look like your own face.

[probablygobletrpgideas]

A goblet the entirely drains if you pour too much liquid into it

[brewerssupplies]

An orb of future sight but only sees a single nanosecond into the future.

[brewerssupplies]

A microphone that instead of projecting your voice, it instead makes it micro, by making it quieter.

[frilly-frack]

Scorching Hand gloves that scorch your own hands.

[brewerssupplies]

A scroll that casts cone of cold but instead of a cone of ice, it creates an ice cream cone in the hand of everyone in the cone.

[probablybadrpgideas]

A robe of many things but every one of those things is a signed photo of danny devito.

[fortethebard]

A “Ring of Clarity” that makes characters aware they’re characters in a game.

[paperstorm]

Australian comedian Jim Jefferies points out the ridiculousness of American pro-gun arguments. x x

[redhead4eyes]

Welp

[the-future-now-deactivated20170]

That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Follow @the-future-now

[orasgiveaways]

This is really important and let me tell you why.

My mom has an iPhone 6 Plus and hasn’t even had it for a year when one day it suddenly died and would not charge. So she took it to an authorized Apple repair place and they charged her $50 for a diagnostic only to tell her that she would have to buy a brand new phone.

So she decided to go to the AT&T store to talk to our usual guy that upgrades our phones and handles any problems for us. She tells him what’s wrong and he takes her phone to the back only to come out two minutes later, puts her phone on charge and it comes back to life. 

She asks him what was wrong with it that he managed to somehow fix when the people at the “authorized apple repair place” couldn’t. And you know what he told her?

“There was just a bit of fuzz in the charging port.”

[toenail-draws]

I FUCKING KNEW IT. Listen, I have a MacBook from college. The charger has died twice, and I had to get a new one. This happened for two years in a row around the same time each year. I’m fucking convinced that their hardware is rigged to “expire” in order to force people to keep buying their shit.

[blood-and-pastry]

Wait, people are just now learning that Apple has some of the shadiest business practices?

[xxxtictacion]

You know this isn’t really just apple, company’s do this all the time, everything is rigged to expire and all they want is your money.

[tachyon-at-rest]

Ohhh no no no, this IS JUST Apple. 

All companies want you to buy their new products. None have gone to the lengths that Apple Inc. has gone to make end user repairs as impossible as is legally viable. I have been repairing electronics and computer systems privately, commercially and active duty in the US military for about 30 years. 

Apple puts extra effort into special hardware requiring proprietary tools that are only legally produced by their licensed manufacturer and can only be purchased through licensed repair shops if at all. 

Companies like iFixit can only exist as profit making companies because they are able to make workaround tools and kits that are still profitable but less of a blatant ripoff than Apple. 

[sodomymcscurvylegs]

Apple has been doing this forever. The way Apple treats consumers is abysmal, and people still eat their products up.

[shevathegun]

This is called “planned obsolescence” - many companies do it, but Apple has made it into an art. Basically, companies - tech companies in particular - have realized that if their products are manufactured too well, they won’t be able to sell you a new one in three years. So, in order to keep consumers coming back for more, they design your gadgets to “expire” in all manner of ways; Apple is infamous for pushing software updates that render older model phones and computers useless right before releasing a new product so that consumers will be forced to purchase the newest version of a gadget they already have.

The best way to fight back against this kind of wasteful, predatory, capitalistic schlock is to learn more about how your gadgets work so that you can repair them instead of replacing them. This man is doing the Lord’s work.

[redbeanviolin]

I get asked a lot in stream about maintaining my 10 year old mac as my main comp and why I won’t be getting a new one when I can’t maintain it anymore. This bullshit is why. I want this here so I can point to it as I divolve into unintelligible on screen ramblings about my adventures in apple upkeep. Get fucked so hard, Apple.

[bobertlutece]

this whole thing is way too good to be giffed you need to expirience it 

[casuallyaperson]

A gift in these trying times.

[casuallyaperson]

It’s funny how much of a time commitment life is.

[spamton]

Reblog the Frog.

[radiosong-remade]

Reblog the Frog.

[simonmonroemoved]

Reblog. The. Frog.

[animaniacs-gone-deactivated2018]

REBLOG. THE. FROG.

[octolinglesbian-deactivated2019]

Reblog the Frog.

[z-paladin]

Reblog the Frog

[renethenon-bi-naryboy-deactivat]

REBLOG THE FROG

[turtledoggy94]

@tamarinfrog

[tamarinfrog]

Reblog the frog

[hoontsart]

REEEEEEBLOG THE FROG

[catbountry]

Reblug the frug.

[iceycube]

@frogsuggest

[frogsuggest]

REBLOG THE FROG

[strange-doors-archived]

In your darkest hour,

REBLOG THE FROG

[unpretty]

come to think of it, why wouldn’t someone with superman’s powers use them for physical comedy? like. buster keaton style. or dick van dyke. he is invulnerable and can fly, those are the perfect circumstances for a pratfall. half the time only he is aware that he is joking and he just looks like a clumsy asshole but he knows in his heart that the timing on that gag was perf. add this to my list of stupid fucking headcanons.

[unpretty]

clark sits down too aggressively in a desk chair, rolls backward across basically the whole office before the chair tips backward and he rolls out of it and into a vending machine in the break room that drops candy on his head because he whacked it. lois is laughing so hard she can’t breathe but the joke is on her, he did that on purpose. he planned that gag for days. she is laughing with him, not at him. who is the real winner here. score one for kent.

[unpretty]

at least once he has nearly given lois an aneurysm because his glasses broke and he decided the best way to deal with this was to go full mr magoo. constantly barely avoiding catastrophe. lois keeps having to try to rescue him so he has to plan things so she won’t get hurt. nonetheless he enjoys the change of pace. the next day at work he listens to her regale the office with tales of how clark nearly fucking died like fifty goddamn times when she was walking him home. he feels like he did a good deed giving her a fun story to tell at parties. after lois finds out he is superman there is hell to pay.

[blacksentai]

White dudes have this thing where they believe your best friend in the world can have opposing political ideas. You’re supposed to be able to have healthy debate and disagreeing shouldn’t harm your friendship. That’s gross and stupid. Its really easy to say that when all your disagreements are theoretical. Its easy to say when none of the laws passed actually effect your life. Fighting with your best friend about corporate regulations, school charters, educational funding, abortion, health care, voting restrictions, drug laws, taxes and all sorts of stuff is cool and lively because none of it is going to actually leave you in a bad spot. Its different for the rest of us. I can’t be friends with you if you think I shouldn’t be allowed to vote. We can’t be friends if you think my friends shouldn’t have the ability to designate whatever gender they want and have that be legally recognized. We can’t be friends if you think I don’t deserve health care. Or if you think native children should be ripped away from their cultures and people. We can’t be friends if you think closing down health care clinics in an attempt to end safe legal abortions is a good thing. All these theoretical political ideas and lively debates effect real people, and I won’t be friends with someone who disagrees with me on them. Because disagreement means you don’t see me or a whole bunch of my friends and family as human beings worthy of rights and respect.

[badscienceshenanigans-deactivat]

why I will not accept agree to disagree anymore

[someroguishgambit-deactivated20]

When people moan about how politics use to be “civil” what they’re really complaining about is the entry into the debate of the people those policies actually effect. Bit hard to be “civil” when it’s your livelihood or your bodily rights on the line

[cungadero]

my s/o is cute and talented rb if ur s/o is cute and talented

[themixtrovert]

“i can’t do that because of my religious beliefs”

okay

“you can’t do that because of my religious beliefs”

not okay

[therepublicofrapunzel-deactivat]

Morality is not subjective. If the Bible says x is wrong, x is wrong whether you are a Christian or not. You’re not exempt from the truth because you don’t believe it.

[pishposh-haberdash]

Except if you’re not a Christian you don’t believe that the bible is truth so….

[therepublicofrapunzel-deactivat]

Yeah and if you’re colorblind you don’t think the sky is blue. 

The sky is blue whether you believe it or not. The Bible is true whether you believe it or not.

[cheshireinthemiddle]

The sky is actually black. You specifically perceive it as blue and a colorblind person may perceive it as orange or grey. A mantis shrimp sees it as colors that you cant even comprehend.

Your views =//= absolute truth

[lornagonigall]

[random2908]

Saw this shared on FB. It covers counter-arguments for a lot of the most common pro-gun points you’ll see people raise. Long read, but very helpful.